[John Retkowski]

Our team has always done one driver one operator, but I think it depends greatly on a few things.

1. The game
This year I think it would be detrimental to have one person controlling everything on the robot no matter how much practice or expertise they have. One person needs to be specifically paying attention to where your bot is on the field, and be responsible to carefully maneuvering it around obstacles. This is a game where one wrong turn could ruin a match.

2. The Robot
It also greatly depends on how simple/complex your robot is. Being the driver for our team this year, I can confidently say that I would have limited to no success completely controlling our robot. Even though it may seem simple at first looking at possible controls and what tasks need to be done, the chance for error while trying to multitask is far too high.

There are of course many other, more specific factors that would effect the situation, but generally I think it's best to have two people working together to drive and operate your teams robot.